EXSHAW, Alta. — Almost every day when Blair Painter drives on the scenic Rocky Mountain highway near his home, the grey asphalt is stained red somewhere along the way.
And Painter, the mayor of Crowsnest Pass, says it’s hard to find any driver who hasn’t had at least one close call with wildlife on the area’s busy transportation corridors.
"It's something we should have considered years ago. I think they're invaluable," Painter said in an interview."I think is one of the highest animal collision areas in the province. I was at a meeting out of town recently and I almost got one there," Painter said in an interview. That overpass is nearly complete with workers putting the final touches along the busy Trans-Canada Highway.
"As of last fall when the fencing was completed, the monitoring cameras that Alberta has put up show that wildlife was using this crossing, even before it was done,” said Tim Johnson, a landscape connectivity specialist for Y2Y. Johnson said Banff National Park is known worldwide for taking a lead in finding ways to make roads safer for people and wildlife since it built its first underpass in the 1990s. At that time there were about 120 collisions a year.
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